Melanie

Not gonna lie, this was really hot and I dug it. I'm reading Shain Rose way out of order but I honestly don't care because I think I'm going to read them all.

This is like great smut with really great tension. I looooove that the characters are still fleshed out and have actual flaws and pasts. It's just a really great package in one book.

I probably shouldn't have jumped in this without reading the rest but the summary intrigued me so I went for it. It said dirty and it was. Flipping dirty. Almost too dirty. Though I guess, dirty is fine when there's something to back it up and truth be told, I had a hard time connecting with the characters. I liked that it wasn't “proper” like other romance novels, that the MMC is technically married, that the FMC is a curvy woman who has a healthy sex drive but despite their strong sexual connection, the rest never really followed so it was hard to buy their falling in love. 

Overall, it was an okay book that does not deliver much. 

This somewhat was even cuter than the first length book. 

This was actually decent. I don't usually enjoy mafia romances that much but I actually cared about these two characters even though the book lacked overall depth and grit.

I'm actually pleased by how high I'm rating this. When I read the synopsis, I was intrigued. When I read the first few pages, I was crushed. 

Word of advice : take the time to read through the glossary at the start. To be fair, it's a bit annoying that a romance novel has such a specific vcabulary. I do think a lot of people will be turned off by the world building and how hard it is to keep track of things. The author really needs to be better at the world building so she doesn't lose readers. But if you take the time to read through the glossary then spends the first few pages thinking about the world described, things start to make better sense.

Then, there's the question of the power dynamics and the heroine. I did not mind, for one second, the meek nature of the heroine. I thought it was up to par with the world built and it still allowed for feelings to take place. I understood the complexity of the relationship between the MMC and the FMC and actually enjoyed it. 

I know others won't because she doesn't talk back (much), because the big bad leader is a total marshmallow for his girl but it's one of my favourite trope so... shrugs

 I'm pretty much in love with this series. I love the world building, it's smart and intriguing. The slow burn is amazing and everything I've ever wanted. I do love a reverse harem where characters get together at a pace that respects the different issues the characters have. I also have strong positive emotions that not once I thought to myself : “why would you do something so stupid?”. The FMC is smart, independent but also pragmatic. The MMC have their own brand of crazy and bagage but they have distinct personalities in subtle ways. 

All in all, it's clever writing and intelligent storytelling with powerful relationship building. Bring on the last book. 

 I'm pretty much in love with this series. I love the world building, it's smart and intriguing. The slow burn is amazing and everything I've ever wanted. I do love a reverse harem where characters get together at a pace that respects the different issues the characters have. I also have strong positive emotions that not once I thought to myself : “why would you do something so stupid?”. The FMC is smart, independent but also pragmatic. The MMC have their own brand of crazy and bagage but they have distinct personalities in subtle ways. 

All in all, it's clever writing and intelligent storytelling with powerful relationship building. Bring on the last book. 

I'm pretty much in love with this series. I love the world building, it's smart and intriguing. The slow burn is amazing and everything I've ever wanted. I do love a reverse harem where characters get together at a pace that respects the different issues the characters have. I also have strong positive emotions that not once I thought to myself : “why would you do something so stupid?”. The FMC is smart, independent but also pragmatic. The MMC have their own brand of crazy and bagage but they have distinct personalities in subtle ways. 

All in all, it's clever writing and intelligent storytelling with powerful relationship building. Bring on the last book.

While I liked this a little less than the first instalment, just like for Don't Puck with my Heart, I do commend Sarah Blue's mastery of writing unusual omegaverse characters and storylines. She diverts from the usual “pack already created seeking (or not) their omega”. 

The book centers around the creation of a pack and that pack is created around an omega. That is refreshing. I really did enjoy Sloane's acceptance at being an omega a nice change from these omegas that complain about it. 

I do feel like the book lacked some meat on it to be thorough and powerful considering the task ahead : having three persons that barely know each other or actively hate each other form a pack. I also thought that the bisexuality of the characters were not enough explored and only given a brush. I'm sure it was to keep things centered on the female omega character but I think it would have only ended more depth to the book. 

All in all, it's a solid Sarah Blue book that won't leave you disappointed, just a little bit thirsty for more.

I liked this one tad less than the previous one. I'm not sure why. I was pumped for Piper's story but there was something lacking. I think I wasn't too sold on her relationship with Owen. Maybe I wanted more vulnerability out of Piper considering her lifestyle and wanted more on how being an alpha doesn't mean you're immune to being sad, tired and run down by life. 

Alexi was such a daddy and I honestly don't think this was played all the way through.  As for Owen, I wanted to like him more than I did because again, the whole basis of his character was peak Sarah Blue that you don't get to witness in other writers : a male omega trying to defy the expectations of society and his own body but also being very smart about it. 

However, despite my nagging, this was still solid Sarah Blue writing and characterization, so don't be taken aback and get right on her stories. She's a writer you can count to deliver.

Sarah Blue is hit or miss for me, depending on her series. What I can say is that she does have a little bit of everything for everyone. Her hockey series? I really do love. 

I was unsure when I started this story but I really enjoyed : the hesitancy despite the immediate connection. While I enjoy my omegaverse and can sometimes be in the mood for “out of control” falling in lust and love, I do enjoy more these stories that have the delicacy of saying that some things can be out of your control but you can also retain a modicum of brain power.

That said, I really appreciated that things were rough for a while and got rough again in a way that felt very real and true to the characters. It made their overcoming events that much more beautiful. 
I did find Anders to be a tad underwritten compared to the others that had personalities much clearer in my mind but it's honestly peanuts to be complaining about that.

The writing is solid. The story is solid. It's good omegaverse literature.

I shouldn't even review this considering I didn't even take the time to read the rest of the story. 
To be honest, and after I checked, I'm really bummed that this series is so short. I do like my book to be meatier. 

Case in point : I thought this had great potential and loved the relationship between the characters but I really craved more backstory, more building up, more exploring. 

I'll probably go back to read more because the writing was okay and the characters were endearing but I'll probably forever complain about the length of these books which leave no room for exploring.

This should have just been two books. It started to drag way too much and lost the little appeal it held over what an original story it was.

Copy/paste from book 1. Honestly, I wasn't sure where this was going at first. The premise was really ambitious but for a good while this worked. Overall, it still works but the male character was a little all over the place which made it hard to root for him. 
Still this is like the bachelor meets the omega world and just for that, it is worth being checked out.  

Honestly, I wasn't sure where this was going at first. The premise was really ambitious but for a good while this worked. Overall, it still works but the male character was a little all over the place which made it hard to root for him. 
Still this is like the bachelor meets the omega world and just for that, it is worth being checked out. 

It's Devyn Sinclair. So honestly, what's not to love?

It was hot and beautiful. The world building is superficial but enough for the point of the story. The writing is solid. Overall, the storytelling could have been a bit stronger because it dragged at some point while some aspects could have been developed a bit more. I know it's how the story was built but I wished we'd had a bit more relationship building because it was all smut from the start. Now, I love my smut but I was really invested in the FMC and the MMC and I did not get enough of them building up their relationship.  

 I absolutely loved this duet. It was dark, fucked up and deliciously wrong. 

Everything was on point : the FMC, the MMC, the world building. The relationship building. The groveling. The witchiness. The writing.

I want to forget it so I can read it all over again for the first time. 
One of my favs this year. 

I absolutely loved this duet. It was dark, fucked up and deliciously wrong. 

Everything was on point : the FMC, the MMC, the world building. The relationship building. The groveling. The witchiness. The writing.

I want to forget it so I can read it all over again for the first time. 
One of my favs this year.

I was really pleasantly surprised by this. I get why some people would be taken aback because it does start in a way and veers in another. To be fair, I haven't read the first and second book of this series (totally will after this though) so I don't know if that's the narration but personnally, I liked the almost three acts book.

It's a story about two people falling in lust, in love and then finding themselves in a situation where real life kicks you in the butt and you have to make the best of it. There's no superpower, no deus ex machina. It's all about how you love, what you forgive, how you move on and how sometimes, your emotions have a hold on your brain that you cannot fight.

Some people might have been taken aback by Avery's personality. I actually appreciated her career driven focus as much as I appreciated Kane's chaotic personality. They were a great match. You don't get to see many FMC like that. They're always either very sweet or very badass. Avery's neither. She's career oriented, needs to work and honestly, she resonated with me as a 21st century working woman myself. 

Honestly, I wish people would give this a try because it was quite beautiful.

Considering how much I've enjoyed her Ruthless Warlords series, I expected to care a bit more for this story. But it felt disjointed and convoluted and I did not feel the fire that her dirty talking alphas inspire in the Ruthless series. I liked “the twist” but it wasn't much to go by and did not deter from the sheer boredom I found myself struggling with.  

I'm a little disappointed in this story but mostly it pushed on things that I found a little taboo I guess. Being a teacher at one point in my life, I always have issues with the whole student-teacher relationship and while Colby is a counsellor and technically, Keates was grown up, it still tackled on things that ‘might have been felt' at an inappropriate time and this made it hard for me to deal with. Apart from that, it's still great Roni Loren, with depth and feelings and characters you can't help but feel for. 

I'm quite ambivalent about this. I liked that it was dark, that it delivered on said darkness, on said feral omega. I liked that the male characters were feral in their own way too. But I think this pushed the enveloppe for me. I'm not sure how to buy anything romantic there. I'm waiting on the next book to see if I'm sold.

I found this follow-up much more compelling than the first book of the series. Despite some tragic elements that weren't easy to navigate, A. Andrews managed to keep up with the overall light mood and there was definitely heat between the characters that I missed in the first opus. 

 I really did not enjoy this, which I'm sad to say because I really loved Sierra Cassidy's Sydney and Allie. It's almost as if the author cannot find the balance between super long books and really short ones. 

This lacked a lot. It felt like a blip of a story and the connection between the characters just wasn't there. It felt icky and wrong in a way even dark books aren't.  

I had trouble getting into this at first. I liked the idea and Amy Andrews generally delivers on the heat but this didn't feel very hot. As usual, it's well written, it's well paced, I have zero complains regarding the execution but overall, I didn't feel invested in the characters which is rare for me.